966: Satanic Panic, IQ Crisis, & Grumpy Cat
The Brain Candy Podcast
Susie Meister PhD & Sarah Rice AMFT
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Sarah is suddenly a new woman who hates when it gets dark early, is not really into Halloween, and is crying over Christmas songs. Sounds like someone is happy and in love. So much so that we get an impromptu, spoken word version of Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses. We hear about an inicident in the 1980s when two boys were supposedly influenced by the music of Judas Priest and persuaded to die by suicide. We hear how it ended, and why heavy metal music is an easy target. Susie reveals the data on IQs over the 20th and 21st centuries, and we learn why there was a sudden decrease in intelligence and what we can do about it. Susie describes an interview with a Holocaust guard who didn't harm any Auschwitz prisoners, but seems disconnected to his own involvement, and why it's more common than you'd think. We find out what it's like to be a pet influencer and why all the nonsense is basically the same as people influencers.
00:00 - Sarah's Unexpected Christmas Transformation and Joy
10:05 - Elevate Your Look with Thrive Causemetics
12:10 - Satanic Panic and the Judas Priest Trial
21:49 - Feel Confident and Comfortable with Honeylove
23:42 - Why Modern Media is Lowering Our IQs
36:33 - Non-Toxic Cooking with Caraway Home
38:37 - The Rise of Spatial Reasoning and Academia
41:58 - The Disconnected Mind of a Holocaust Guard
54:21 - Grumpy Cat and the Pet Influencer Phenomenon
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| 0:00.0 | Breaking Podcast. |
| 0:05.6 | Episode 966. |
| 0:07.8 | We're into December. |
| 0:09.7 | December. |
| 0:12.7 | Yuletide. |
| 0:14.7 | I don't know what any of those things are. |
| 0:18.2 | Yuletide. |
| 0:19.2 | What does that even mean? |
| 0:20.7 | You say it like it's two words |
| 0:22.9 | you'll tide is one word like roll tide that's what i thought it was right i i wish i were kidding |
| 0:32.5 | like alabama right alabama yeah roll tide but like yule tied it's just like, I don't know. It's the Christmas season. Yult tide. What? I didn't mean. It's like German or something. I know, but now that word is like, it's like one of those words where now we've ruined it because we've said it more times than anybody should. And now I'm like, is that a word? |
| 0:54.3 | What are words? |
| 0:55.5 | I know what do you mean. |
| 0:57.1 | I agree. |
| 0:58.1 | And I'm like, is it two words? |
| 0:59.5 | Is it one word? |
| 1:00.2 | What does it mean? |
| 1:01.5 | What does tie? |
| 1:04.4 | Yule. |
| 1:06.0 | There's like a Yule log. |
| 1:07.8 | No, I'm not at all. |
| 1:10.1 | God, I wish I were. |
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